The Listening Comprehension Level of the Senior High School Students

The study examined the listening comprehension levels of the senior high school students and investigated the factors that influence their performance across the stages of listening. The study utilized descriptive research design and used stratified random sampling in selecting the 506 Grade 12 respondents of the academic year 2019-2020. The independent variables present are gender, attitude towards listening, status of the learning environment, and exposure to listening activities, and the dependent variable is based on the listening comprehension level of DeVito’s stages of listening. The findings showed that respondents are generally described as Intermediate in terms of the level of listening comprehension, with higher performance in the level of receiving and responding, and lower performance in the understanding and evaluating stage. The respondents were mostly female who showed a very positive attitude toward listening, perceived their learning environment as excellent, and described their exposure to listening as moderate. Furthermore, t-test and F-test was used that showed listening comprehension levels significantly differed when grouped according to gender and attitude towards listening, while there are no significant differences found when grouped according to the status of learning environment and exposure to listening activities. The findings suggest that listening comprehension can be influence more by internal factors than external factors. The study highlights that there is a need to focus on developing instructional strategies for higher-order listening skills to enhance students’ communicative competence.